Poetry Quote by Philip Larkin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.”

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”

“Morning, noon & bloody night,”

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands”

“Uncontradicting solitude”

“I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.”

“I would not come in.”

“He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chest”

“...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...”

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,”

“Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?”

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”